Timeline for answer to How can we attract more grad students? by Steven Gubkin
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| Feb 7, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | Of course I am not representative but I personally loathe threaded chat. I like my conversations to be in one continuous, meandering flow, rather that in an infinitely branching tree. Of course preferences can vary, but I wouldn't be so quick to embrace a "reddit-like" interface. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 23:03 | history | edited | Steven Gubkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 5, 2021 at 21:28 | comment | added | Tim Campion | @StevenGubkin That makes sense. Actually, this could address two things that AT0 pointed out about comments. 1.) It would be nice for comments to provide more of the flexibility necessary for an organic conversation and 2.) Because everything is recorded permanently, comments one might regret later are stuck out there prominently for everybody to see (unless someone takes the time to delete them). | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 10:38 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @TimCampion I was thinking that there could be a "preview" of the top level "reddit" forum comments which would go where the comment section is now. So for the casual browser, it would look pretty similar to what we have now, the only difference being that only the most useful (upvoted) comments and replies to those comments would be visible from the main site. There could then be a "contribute to this discussion" link which takes you to the discussion forum for the question. | |
| Feb 5, 2021 at 1:56 | comment | added | Tim Campion | I find this idea striking and very interesting. I'm having trouble visualizing it, though. Maybe just because in my mind's eye I'm overlaying the look and feel of reddit onto MO and it just clashes horribly. Would you have the threaded discussion on a separate page, or would it somehow all be collapsible or something on the same page? In the first case, I imagine it feeling disjointed; in the second I imagine it feeling crammed in. For an extreme example, I imagine something like this question could have benefited from such a format. | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 17:39 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | Ah, I see. I dislike that the "talk section" is again a wiki. Being able to edit other peoples comments is not good for a conversation (but IS good for the QA main site). Also I really like collapsable threads (as in reddit). | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 17:27 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | The "talk" section of Wikipedia is at the top left, close to "article". For instance en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AMathOverflow | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 17:21 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @FrancescoPolizzi Maybe, but I have been a Wikipedia end user for a long time and have never seen a "talk section". Moreover, navigating to a page and spending a minute trying to find this "talk section" did not yield anything. The solution I have in mind would be much more prominently displayed (like a link at the bottom of each post which takes you to something which looks like a Reddit discussion forum). | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | Francesco Polizzi | Are you thinking about something similar to the "talk" section associated with every Wikipedia page? | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 17:03 | history | answered | Steven Gubkin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |